“No country should be able to bully a briefer into silence, let alone the United Nations.” And that was really outrageous,” she said. We now know that the Sudanese government threatened to end the UN Mission in Sudan if the SRSG participated in this briefing. “We had expected that SRSG Perthes was going to brief the Council. However Thomas-Greenfield condemned the fact that SRSG Perthes was compelled to withdraw from addressing the meeting. ‘The stories and the images coming out of Sudan, especially out of Darfur, are bone-chilling…’ The stories and the images coming out of Sudan, especially out of Darfur, are bone-chilling,” Thomas-Greenfield said. Speaking to reporters after the meeting US Representative to the UN, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, reflected on the briefing as sobering: “a conflict that has gone on for over 100 days – and has turned large swaths of Sudan into a living hell. UNITAMS head, Volker Perthes, briefs the UNSC in New York on May 22 (Photo: UNTV) The briefing was ultimately provided by the Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, and the Director of Operations and Advocacy at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Edem Wosornu. Wednesday’s meeting of the UNSC was convened to discuss the continued conflict between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The US ambassador to the United Nations says she is “appalled” after UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan, Volker Perthes, was prevented from delivering his regular brief to the UN Security Council on Wednesday, following “outrageous” and “unacceptable” threats by the Sudanese government to expel UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) should he do so.Īs UNITAMS head, Perthes,must report to the council on the situation in Sudan every 90 days.
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